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SUGAR GANE SLIOING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL BABE, OF SANGERHAUSEN, PRUSSIA, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE QANGERHAUSER ACTIEN MASCI-HNEX FABRIK AND EISENGIESSEREI, I 4'ORM. HORNUNG IS: BABE, OF SAME PLAGE.

sueAR oANE-sucmc MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,348, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed March lfi, 188']. Serial No. 231,147. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL RABE, of the city of Sangerhausen, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Sugar-Cane- Slicing Machines, of which the following is a l specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to those sugar-canccutting machines which have feed-hoppers in clincd to the vertical axis of the cutting-disk for so presenting the cane slantwise to the out ters that it is divided into approximately elliptical slices obliquely to the length of the cane.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of the rotary cutting-disk, and provide novel means for severing the canes into slices of varying thickness. The object I accomplish by the construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the ac; companying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the machine embodying my invention; Fig. *3, a top plan view; Fig. 3, a side elevation; Fig. 4, a sectional view of the cutting-disk, taken on the line y y, Fig. 5; Fig. 5, a broken plan view showing a portion of the cutting-disk; Fig. 6, a side view of part of a sugar-cane, showing the oblique line on which it is sliced; Fig. 7, a detail plan view of a slice of the cane and in the direction of the line .2 ,2: Fig. 8, a sectional view of the cutting-disk on the line u N, Fig. 5.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use in y inventi on,l will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, wherein The letter 7) indicates a suitable frame, having at its upper end a receptacle, (1, surmounted by a cover-plate, (1, provided with rectangular openings, from which extend the feed-hoppers '11. These hoppers are placed in inclined positions relatively to the vertical shaft a, which carries the cutting disk e at a point directly under the cover-plate, so that the cutters 0 will travel in close proximity to the lower open ends of the feed-hoppers.

The shaft to is rotated by bevel-gears c c, shaft a and pulley a thereupon, all substantially as shown in English Patent No. 14,402 of 188i.

The inclined feed-hoppers are open at their 5 5 upper ends to receive the canes u, which at their lower ends rest upon the cutting-disk e.

In order that the canes will regularly descend the inclined wall of the feed-hopper, and to insure constant contact of the canes with the cutting-disk, I provide each feed-hopper i with a transverse slot, '0', in its inner wall, and provide rollers 7:, journaled in bearings i on the outside of the hoppers in such manner that a portion of the periphery of each roller will proj eet through one of the slots 2" slightly into the hopper and afford a rolling rest for the canes. By the inclination of the feed-hop pers the tendency of the canes u is to bear upon the disk e, but by the rollers this is in- 7 sured, while at the same time the canes will regularly and uniformly descend upon the cuttin g-disk.

The disk 6 is provided with a series of radial slots, 6', extending from near its hub to near its periphery, there being at the peripheral portions of the disk the recesses, as at 6 so that the-reduced outer ends or tenons, 7t, of the cutter-carryin boxes 71 enter said recesses and engage under the peripheral portions of the disk, l igsll and S. The disk 6 at the sides of each slot or opening e is provided with radial bars n, which project inwardly and serve as rests for the boxes h when the latter are insertedinto said. slots or openings. The radial bars a are detachably secured to the under side of the disk by screws 01 ,passing through the bars and tapped into the disk, Figs. l and 5.

The cutters or blades 0 are connected with go one side of the boxes h by screws 0', while on the opposite sides of the boxes are arranged movable counter-pieces p, which can be adjusted vertically in relation to the cuttingedges of the cutters through the medium of set-screws m in the boxes directly under the counter-pieces. By this means the distances between the cutting-edges of the counterpieces can be varied at will to cut the cane into slices of any desired thickness. By entering the outer reduced ends or tenons 7! into the correspondingly-shaped recesses 6 and thus engaging such reduced ends under the outer edges of the disk eat the outer ends of the slots 6', the boxes are firmly held down in proper position and also prevented from outward sliding movement without the use of extraneous fastening devices.

The sugar-canes it, when introduced into the feed-hoppers, will bear at their lower ends against the disk 6, and rest at their under sides against the periphery of the rollers 7t, and the latter will yield, or, rather, roll, under the least downward tension of the canes, and thereby insure the desired regular and uniform downward feed motion. The slices 10', Severed by the cutters 0, are approximately elliptical in form and fall upon the horizontal bottom wall of the chamber (Z, from whence they are carried to the dischargespout g, through the medium of radial blades f", secured to the sleeve f which is loosely mounted on the shaft a. This sleeve is rotated at less speed than the cutting-disk and shaft a by means of pinions f, f,f and f of different diameters. The small pinion f is fixed to the shaft 0, and rotates the largest pinion f on a secondary shaft, f, which is thus revolved at less speed The shaft-3]" also carries a than the shaft a. small pinion, f which drives alarger pinion, f on the sleeve f", whereby the circumferential speed of the sleeve is'still slower than shaft f, and the blades f 4 are thus revolved at a low speed compared to the speed of the cutting-disk.

I do not confine myself to any particular number of feed-hoppers or cutter-boxes and cutters, as these may be varied at will.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination, with a frame havinga chamber provided with a covering-plate and a feed-hopper delivering the cane through said plate, of the rotary disk e, having aradial slot, 6', and a recess, 6 at the under side of the periphery of the disk communicating with the slot, the sidebars, n,theboxes-h, carrying a cutter, 0, resting on'the side bars and having an outer reduced end or tenon, h, entering the said recess and engaging under the peripheral portion of the disk, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the cuttingsdis'k 6, having a radial slot, 2, and a. recess, e under the peripheral portion communicating with the slot, with the cutter-carrying box 71, hav-. ing a reduced outer end or tenon, 7t, entering said recess and engaging under the peripheral portion of the disk, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presenceof two snbscribing witnesses.

CARL BABE.

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EMIL WOLF, A. DHE REUSE. 

